Blue screen of death problem

[manored]

We ended up discovering that the problem was on ram (we had 3 cards on 3 slots, so it was asking for :) ). Already solved. Thanks for the help guys.

[Archangel of Death]

You confirmed that it wasn't just a bad stick first, right? You know, run with just one stick at a time, do some stuff, see if it bsods before long. Then trying the same stick in different slots with them. If you didn't and you solved it by just removing a stick, it would still be useful to know if that stick is trash or usable, or if it was in a bad slot. If you added one, you might have only hidden the problem by lowering the probability of a program trying to use a bad memory address, and will still get random, but far far less frequent, crashes. Less frequent as in you get one in a few weeks/months and think "what the heck is wrong now?" when really it is the same thing.

[manored]

We didnt tested wich one has the problem yet (lazyness of my brother who is the one that knows how to mount and unmount the pc :) ) we are using a single 1gb stick that the technian lended us.

[SwiftSpear]

We ended up discovering that the problem was on ram (we had 3 cards on 3 slots, so it was asking for :) ). Already solved. Thanks for the help guys.

There's nothing wrong with using 3 chips on 3 slots... as long as they are set in the orientation the motherboard requests. The only potential problem with using more ram chips is putting more devices in the PC that can possibly fail... but dual channeling RAM is better for performance, so it's not like multiple chips is a bad idea.

Still, it did sound alot like RAM... I would think a CPU overheat would cause the same message every time.

[manored]

Well I actually said that because with 3 chips on 3 slots I was on the maximum probabillity of having a ram problem my computer could reach :)

[SwiftSpear]

Still. I don't agree that it's "asking for it". Ya, RAM dies sometimes... but it's really rare for something to go wrong with RAM if the chip didn't initially have something wrong with it. So with RAM you usually discover within a month of when you get it weather it's broken or not.

After that chips are relatively reliable. It's sort of like the probability of one core dying on a multicore system... it's possible, sure, but CPU cores don't usually just drop out.

[manored]

Well with "asking for it" I didnt meant that that would end up happening eventually, just that I was in the maximum probabillity of having some problem with ram... :)